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Retiring TO something is important, but ideally it needs to involve a lot of in-person socializing, which many hobbies do not have. Golfing, for example, is pretty much the platoni…

Or maybe that's just the human condition? Retirement is a pretty recent concept anyway. Back when people were hunter/gatherers or subsistence farmers, you didn't have the option of…

One other factor that others haven't yet covered is that the different lines had different capabilities, e.g. the T-89 had Computer Algebra System symbolic manipulation meaning it …

What are you envisioning exactly?

I'm not really sure what the point of this article is. Yes, obviously, you need to implement systems that are secure and performant so that you don't get a backed-up line of people…

> especially when it comes to dynamic range You can solve this by having multiple cameras for each vantage point, with different sensors and lenses that are optimized for different…

Beg for forgiveness, don't ask permission. I got Shingrix when I was under the age of 40, and at no cost to myself even, simply by scheduling a Shingrix vaccine at CVS. It wasn't u…

Your average HN reader can absolutely afford paying a few hundred bucks to avoid getting a potentially life-changing disease, and should. I know multiple young adults who got messe…

The deorbits are controlled to occur over nonpopulated areas (i.e. the middle of the ocean). I don't think it amounts to much of a concern, compared to, say, the sum total emission…

I'm amazed that the article doesn't discuss the end of ZIRP. The bursting of the art market bubble in mid 2022 coincides exactly with when interest rates started rising following t…

Well, it's either that or a paywall. Pick your poison.

Link shorteners are old enough that likely more URLs that were targeted by link shorteners have rotted away than have link shorteners themselves. Go look at a decade+ old webpage. …

One wonders why they don't, instead of showing down, display a 15s interstitial unskippable YouTube-style ad prior to redirecting. That way they'll make money, and they can fund th…

No, payroll is still down, it's just that labor is now being used less efficiently and thus less useful work gets done.

Sadly there's a bunch of interesting communities on there that aren't really available anywhere else, plus some of the competing platforms are even worse just in different ways (th…

Hey man, just wanted to let you know, I had to downvote a bunch of your comments in this thread, not because I disagree with you, but because your commenting style is unnecessarily…

I curate a relatively tame Twitter feed, but X has been showing me animated advertisements of some fleshlight-like device going to town on a dildo. W. T. A. F. It's started making …

Ironically, most of his stories were blowing smoke. He wasn't actually nearly as successful at any of that as he was at making up stories and convincing everyone how successful he …

Yeah but in the mean time it's tying up a connection on your webserver.

I'm wondering why the hood is so big, given that it doesn't need to contain an engine? Is that where the batteries are located? Or is it just mostly empty space in the form of a fr…

Surge protectors are not rated for lightning. There are protection systems for lightning (ham radio operators use them), but they're quite a bit more expensive and also involve dri…

It does seem like there's potentially some kind of bad electrical system / lack of grounding issue going on.

AliExpress shipping has gotten noticeably faster even over the five years that I've been using it. Just about everything arrives within a week now.

This is overly cynical. The target demographic for a really complicated Vacheron Constantin is a rich person who is a HUGE nerd about watches. Think about people who get into reall…

These are luxury products. That's not the point. They use precious metals when steel would work just as well, and the really high end ones take hundreds of hours of hand labor to v…